Flow
() imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
Flow
(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid |
Flow
(v. i.) To become liquid |
Flow
(v. i.) To proceed |
Flow
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties |
Flow
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance |
Flow
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving |
Flow
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide |
Flow
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with varnish. |
Flow
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid |
Flow
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant |
Flow
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river |
Flow
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
Flow
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land |
Stem
(v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem
(n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem
(n.) The stock of a family |
Stem
(n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem
(n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem
(n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem
(n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem
(n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem
(n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem
(n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem
(n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem
(n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem
(v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem
(v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem
(v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem
(v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping
(a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder
(n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding
(a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
work flow
workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
flow
stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
stem turn
stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
bow fore
prow
stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
| laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
| shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
| stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
| stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
menorrhea
menstrual blood
menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
brainstem
brain-stem
brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
| stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
| hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
stem vowel
thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
flow
flowing | the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
airflow
air flow
flow of air | the flow of air, she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
| turbulent flow | flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically |
| streamline flow | flow of a gas or liquid in which the velocity at any point is relatively steady |
| laminar flow | nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae) |
celtuce
stem lettuce
Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
bluestem
blue stem
Andropogon furcatus
Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
common ginger
Canton ginger
stem ginger
Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger |
onion stem
Lepiota cepaestipes | a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base |
stalk
stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
black-stem spleenwort
black-stemmed spleenwort
little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil |
| cash flow | the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including nonash expenses) |
| flow | any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
stream
flow | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously, a stream of people emptied from the terminal, the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
| stem blight | a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
little potato
rosette
russet scab
stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
flow
flow rate
rate of flow | the amount of fluid that flows in a given time |
menstruate
flow | undergo menstruation, She started menstruating at the age of |
| stem | remove the stem from, for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed |
| flow | cover or swamp with water |
stem
stanch
staunch
halt | stop the flow of a liquid, staunch the blood flow, stem the tide |
flow away
flow off | flow off or away gradually, The water flowed off from the pipe |
flow out
effuse | flow or spill forth |
hang fall
flow | fall or flow in a certain way, This dress hangs well, Her long black hair flowed down her back |
| flow flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream, The crowd flowed out of the stadium |
run flow
feed course | move along, of liquids, Water flowed into the cave, the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi |
| flow | cause to flow, The artist flowed the washes on the paper |
| stem | grow out of, have roots in, originate in, The increase in the national debt stems from the last war |
be due
flow from | be the result of |
| stem | cause to point inward, stem your skis |
| flow | be abundantly present, The champagne flowed at the wedding |